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Show GIT STRENGTH IS SHOWN BY POACHER "The Wrestler" Holds Germans Ger-mans at Bay While the French Light Fuses. SOLDIERS BUY BONDS - j British Invest Savings With; Government; Tales of J I leroism Frequent. ! i Sp'ci.,1 to The Tribune. i I'AKIS, Autf. 7. Many liritish ! soldier-) ate managing to av a large phii re of their rural! v. au to buy )lritih war bondh, v.hi-h come a low as tl.-'. The story of a namelehs hero who faced certain death with words of en-euurageri.ent en-euurageri.ent to his coinra ie on his Jipts was told here today. ' ' The Wrestler, " an he was called, was n foldier of fortune with the boul of a gvpsy. liorn in tho Jura mountain, moun-tain, he was a poacher nd smuggler in peace time, while hi a distraction he i sited the local fairs and tried hits -trci.gth with the strong men in the -hows. Tall and broad shouldered, with the p'rength of a lion, be was beldoin Horftud. Praised by Chiefs. In his regiment he, showed himelf taciturn, but earn d the approbation of his chiefs bv b.s tireless eLerjry and devotion to duty. One muru;ng while the French were preparing to explode a wrb-s of mines a curious noie was heard in the trench in which "The V re-tier" was posted. It was soon found that a German ! right into tho redoubt from which the p.jcl.ford fufcrs were laid. A few blow with picks and hammers quicfclv den.olir.-d the thin partition -eparatir.g the ap from the redoubt and the next moment' a number of the men, ome armed with revolvers and others witn sapping tools, swarn.ed into the redoubt, then eiifued a terrible fiubtor-ranran fiubtor-ranran combat. Armed With Pickaxes. "The Wrestler." armed with a pickaxe, pick-axe, f-wung it rouud aDd round, dealing destruction on all hand;, while the Ger-mam Ger-mam vainlv tried to reach the fu-ea to render them ii-Wss. The French were greatlv outnumbered, and "The Wre?t-ler, Wre?t-ler, ' "noticing this, cried out: "Light he fufes and run. I'll keep tcern back. " A non-comrniodoned officer lit one of the fuse. "Come on," he said to "The Wrcetier," "you had bet tar run, ton. ' ' Put the ex-poacher stood his ground, hiding back the enemv while t he officer of-ficer continued to light the fuses. Final-Iv Final-Iv he was brought down, as the last frenchman evacuated the. redoubt, and the Germans trampled his bodv underfoot under-foot in rushing to extinguish the fuses. But it was too late. There was a deafening roar, the earth opened, and every man of the enemy wa-s engulfed. |